Quick start — getting ready and moving off
The order of getting the machine ready, what to check before the field, what happens when you move off, and what to watch while working.
Your machine may not have every step — skip what it does not have. The main menu opens with a two-finger tap on the home screen; a device's context menu with a touch and hold on the device (Interface basics).
Before the field
Calibrate the speed sensor. Area, rates and deviations are all calculated from the speed; a wrong speed makes every other figure wrong. Standing still, touch and hold the speed field and choose “Speed calibration” — at the Operator level. The same item is under “Settings” → “Seeding machine parameters”, at the Agronomist level. See Speed sensor.
Calibrate the metering rollers — on machines that apply products by weight. From the context menu of each dispenser (“Dispenser calibration(weight)”, shown when its weight control is on) or of each dispenser motor, at the Operator level, standing still. See Sensor settings.
Check the tramline rhythm, if the machine makes tramlines. See Set up the tramline rhythm.
Check the sensor parameters — the list is below.
Check each section: is it under control, does it apply product. See The four states of a section.
Choose the field on the Statistics screen: two-finger tap, “Select field”. For a new field, erase its statistics first with “Zero statistics”. See Statistics screen.
Set the rates — seeding, dry fertilizer, liquid fertilizer. See Change the target rate.
Check the access level. It must be “Operator”: “Settings” → “User”.
Several of these settings need the Agronomist level — “Seeding machine parameters” among them. Raise the level (Enable the Agronomist level), do what needs it, drop back to Operator, do the rest.
Sensor parameters to check
- Speed sensor — “Min speed, km/h”, “Max speed, km/h”.
- Dispenser sensor — “Period, s”, for each sensor.
- Fan sensor — “Minimum, rpm”, “Maximum, rpm”, for each sensor.
- Pressure sensor — “Minimum, Pa”, “Maximum, Pa”, for each sensor.
- Liquid fertilizer pump — “Pulses per liter”, “Max pressure, Bar”.
- Seed and dry fertilizer sensors — “Fraction”, “Correction”, “Recalculation,m” or “Recalculation,sec”; in the “Precise” or “Hybrid” mode also “Rate error,%”.
- Electric motors, “Precise” mode — “Holes in disk”.
- Electric motors, dosing by weight — for each motor, “Weight, gr” and “Rotations”. The mass calibration fills both in.
Details: Sensor settings.
Moving off
Put the implement into the working position.
Planters with dispenser motors: fill the disks — main menu, “Fill the disks with seeds”. Without it the first metres of every row are empty. See Fill the disks.
Grain drills: nothing to start. The metering motors begin turning by themselves as soon as the product application control starts — the moment you move off.
Drive.
When the control starts. The manual lock must be off (Lock product application by hand). If a work position sensor is fitted and under control, the control begins once you move with the implement lowered; without such a sensor, as soon as you move. Alarms start after the delay set in “Settings” → “Alarm delay”, 2 to 20 seconds.
| Sound | What it means |
|---|---|
| One short beep | The panel sees the machine seeding. From now on the sections are watched. |
| Three short beeps | The seeding has stopped — at the headland, or the columns have sunk under the control line. |
On grain drills in the “Flow” or “Hybrid” mode, let the panel find the alarm level itself: Set the alarm level automatically.
While working
Watch four things: the speed against the tractor, the fan and the pressure inside their range, the actual rate against the target, and that no sensor is alarming. The Table screen shows how each section is doing right now; the Statistics screen how the whole field has gone.
If the speed sensor fails, see Work without the speed sensor.
Something your machine does that this page does not answer? Write to support@agriwelt.com — an engineer answers.